Black Mountain - In the Future. Heavy, trippy, myth-y, kind of ridiculous in the best possible wayThe Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride. Nasally voice, acoustic guitar, incredible storyteller. Has an awesome song about alienation and racism called "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" that I submit for your listening pleasure.Miley Cyrus - See You Again. Don't hate. That chorus fucking KILLS.

Here´s what I´ve been listening to last two weeks, very diverse stuff. Thanks to P.G. Raven, going to get the new Lustmord album.

Mogwai - Batcat EP

One of leading, we-do-not-fear-experiments-but-we-love-postrock bands, this is it´s new three song ep, ´devil rides´ sounds like slow, more poppy joy division, beautiful haunting tragedy of a song.

The Bug - London ZOO

Pure fucking dubstep meets angry political ragga vocalists and sounds experiments by the man who made his first album with DJ Vadim called ´Tapping the Conversation´ as unnoficial soundtrack for Scorseese´s ´The Conversation´ early masterpiece starring Gene Hackman.

Apocalyptic folk. Scary and beautiful as the corpse Baudelaire fell into one morning. Listen enough and you´ll feel absinthe, dead children, lost love stories and total poverty bursting out of your eyes.

Have not enough time to write all down,so the rest will come down quickly.

The Flashbulb - Binedump EP (IDM, Breakcore)Face to Face - Best Of (Punk Rock, very poppy)Patrick Wolf - Lycantrophy (Very talented, highly reccomended - wolves, folk, heart, experimental, great songwriter)Antony and the Johnstons - I am a Bird Now (you probably know)M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (listen to ´don´t save us from the flames´ and ´teenage angst´ on youtube. shoegaze at it´s best)Mochipet - Microphonepet (sick hiphop with very dubstep oriented feeling. highly entertaining and witty, straight from one of best breakcore/idm producers)

@Warren: Titus Andronicus! Just saw them recently. Was very pleased, would/will buy the CD and wear a sticker.

@joe.distort: Which Leathermouth show? Austin? If so, a friend of mine was there and said one of the opening bands was really good (not Reggie and the Full Effect--War-something?--anyway: your opinion?).

Lots of Jesu, mainly because of the chunk of stuff that's just been released. Lots of Pelican as well, including the realisation that City of Echoes is really good.Sharks Keep Moving album.Oxbow - The Narcotic Story.

I just watched The Decline of Western Civilization parts 1 and 3, so I've been digging back into some of that late 70's/early 80's punk while avoiding the few bands that pop up in part 3.

Slightly, only slightly off-topic: Part 1 is a deserved classic, although not interviewing Fear -- or at least not including it in the final cut -- was a huge mistake. Their live performance is by far the most memorable: "Why do women have two holes so close to each other? So you can carry them like a six-pack!"

Part 3 was somewhat disappointing. Penelope Spheeris was so enamored with the gutterpunk community, she hardly connects with the music side of the "scene" at all. No amount of clever editing could hide the fact that these kids had very little to do with any music scene, mostly sticking to candy-colored, glue-propped hairstyles for purely aesthetic reasons. She also could have given more time to the obvious problems between the wheelchair bound punk with an apartment, and the homeless gutterpunks who ham up their relationship with him for the camera. Only a single shot of the poor man's disgusted reaction belies what had to be a much more complex relationship than Spheeris felt inclined to depict in the editing room.

To take it back on topic: I'm listening to Fear, Black Flag, and Negative Approach for the first time in awhile.

word! they are playing FUCK YEAH FEST in los angeles this weekend with like 20 other bands of varying genre and around 10 comedians...i want to go so badly. SEX/VID! BOB ODENKIRK! IN ONE PLACE!!!! dammit.

@joe.distort:WARSHIP, that's it. Duh. Will check out, consult friend, and post if worthy. I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to any of the dates on this Leathermouth tour, which is a shame, as so far all my folks who have gone have said it's a solid good time. Young crowd, but consistently good music, and no more face-kicking than one would reasonably expect. The only bad/mediocre reviews in my social circle have been of MC Chris--looks like you confirm the data.

Ryan Bingham's Mescalito album is a wonderfully gritty collection of songs that fall into that Texas country/folk/blues aarena that spawned such talents as John Hiatt and the late Townes Van Zandt. Bingham's no Van Zandt - not yet - but this album suggests that he's not that far off.

The thing about Bingham is that he's lived a hard life for real - that gives his songs a genuine truth that you don't find in a lot of "recording artists." His voice falls somewhere between middle period Dylan and Hiatt and his backup musicians are as kickass as they need to be. Chugging banjo, tasty peddle steel, the occasional snarly guitar cutting through and the wailing fiddle all complement Bingham's voice in ways that feel completely natural and right. And the rhythm section is as good as anything from Memphis or Nashville [or Motown, for that matter].

I'm also really enjoying all things The Mars Volta [think a hybrid of Devo and Captain Beefheart, filtered through The Grateful Dead].

The Angels of Light - Entire Catalog I have been on a big Michael Gira kick the last several weeks. Lots of Swans and Angels. Been trying to find a copy of his book 'The Consumer" for under $50. Not having the best of luck...

those guys have a bunch of awesome bands- 50/50, KNUCKLESCRAPER, HATRED SURGE (!!) and they used to be the MACHINE GUN ROMANTICS. if you like IW, you will probably like all of them...theres a whole gaggle of GxCxGxC (gulf coast grindcore) bands in their crew.